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Youth sports report for June 11-20

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Novato Heat, led by a young but very talented group of players, drove up to Petaluma this weekend to take the 8U Girls Softball Championship. The day started off with a hard fought victory against the host team and #2 seed, Petaluma Steel Breeze. The same team that beat the Novato Heat only the day before 6-0 during the preliminary round! Knowing that there was no room for error, Coach Ted Osheroff used his two young pitchers, Bryn Weigl-Murphy and Kilee Koch, to shut out the hot hitting Steel Breeze! Supporting the solid pitching effort was a 1st inning bases loaded and bases clearing double by the starting pitcher Kilee Koch and spectacular play in the field to help lead the team into the championship game.

Feeling the momentum, Head Coach Ted Osheroff again went with the same Weigl-Murphy & Koch pitching combination against the #1 seed, Rohnert Park Rebels. Again, the Novato Heat struck early with 3 runs scored in the 1st inning highlighted by a 2 run double hit by the starting shortstop, Sydney Martinez. Neither team could muster any runs during the 2nd or 3rd innings as pitching on both sides was exceptional. After a quick out to start the bottom of the 4th inning, Rebels started to rally. After a couple hits and a run scored to make it 3-1, the Rebels and the fans on both sides could feel the momentum changing. Novato Heat called time for a quick mound visit to settle this young group girls down. As quickly as the rally started, it was over. Koch struck out the batter for the last out of the game and The Heat became the 8u Champions!

None of this happens without the contributions of our other great coach, Dan Koch who wouldn’t let this team get down and had his finger on the pulse of this team the entire tournament. THANK YOU COACH DAN!

The sun broke through the clouds and shined brightly on the last home meet for the Seals as they hosted the tough Rolling Hills Stingrays. The score was close at the half, but the Seals were able to pull away to a 323-235 win despite the best efforts of the Stingrays who were led by Daniel Hardman, breaking a 24 year-old team record in the 13-14 Free, as well as two Tam Pool records in the 13-14 Free and Back. The Seals’ Zach Glenn and Hardman pushed each other throughout the meet with Glenn breaking his own Free team record in the process. The day was bittersweet as the Seals said goodbye to graduating seniors Taylor Bontz and Sam Osburn, as well as long-time Seals Hannahrose and Mason Grant. To cap a fun meet the Seals coaches ended the day by getting in the water and racing against the Seals and Stingrays’ 15-18 group in the free-relay (which was close but the 15-18 swimmers were not about to be embarrassed by the the upstart coaches). With the season coming to a close – the Seals and Stingrays are ready to make a great showing at Champs!

Scott Valley hosted the Novato Riptides on Saturday. 8 Scott Valley Pool Records fell, Zach McIntyre and Allie Level led the Riptide team setting 5 new team records. Zachary McIntyre broke 3 pool records, Reese Burns of Scott Valley broke 2 pool records, 11-12 Ethan Lewczyk of Scott Valley broke his brother’s pool record in the 50 Butterfly, 13-14 Lucy Daro of Scott Valley lowered her team mark in the 50 Fly swimming it to a 27.77. Both teams turned in several best times and many swimmers made their cut times in the last meet before All-Stars next Saturday. It was a fun day at the pool. Good luck to all the swimmers heading into the final month of the season.

Zachary McIntyre lowered his 9-10 Boys Free to 26.89 from 26.95 earlier this year
Allie Level lowered her 13-14 Girls Breast time to 32.55 from 33.27
Allie Level tied the 2004 13-14 Girls 50 Fly time of 28.14
Allie Level broke the 1996 13-14 Girls 100 IMtime of 1:06.20 with a time of 1:05.61

The 9-10 Free Relay team (Chris Falvey, Ava Scafani, Tereza Shea, Zachary McIntyre) broke the prior 1997 team record of 2:02.46 with a time of 2:00.27

Marin Waves Track Club Members have Big Days at Pacific Association Track & Field Championships!

Angelica Zuber led the Waves winning the Mini-Javelin Championship in her Group 3 (11-12) division with a throw of 86’08”. Zach Bibeault had a big weekend with three second place finishes in group 6 (17-18) in the 3000 meters (10:13.17), 800 meters (2:17.43), and 1500 meters (4:33.31). Emily Carmona (Group 2, 9-10 yr.) also had standout perfomances with second place finishes in the 800 meters (2:44.56) and 1500 meters (5:27.03).

The Reds rode another dominant pitching performance from Scott Sheron to defeat the Marlins 10-0, and claim the 2013 National League Regular Season title. Sheron gave up only one hit while striking out eleven over five innings. Tommy Doherty led the Reds offense with three hits, including a line drive triple that got the Reds off to a quick lead in the first. Joe Garbarino, Colby Lamond, and Scott Sheron added two hits for the Reds. Drew Treppa had the lone hit for the Marlins, a long double to right center.

June 12 Reds 9 White Sox 3

Matt DeFilippis threw three shut out innings, but the story was the REDS offense, as Adam Frey, Eric Leroux, and Joey Rempe powered long doubles, and Colby Lamond, Christian Pedersen-Seaman, and Leroux had two hits for the Reds. Wyatt Hill and Patrick Butler doubled for the White Sox.

June 11 Angels 3 Marlins 2

The Angels clinched the 2013 American League Regular Season title with a 3-2 win over the Marlins. The Angels opened the scoring in the second on a double from Lucas Kehs and a single by Jacob Jossart. The Angels opened the lead to 3-0 in the third on two out RBIs from Bradley Dalrymple and Lucas Kehs. The Marlins got a run back in the fifth, and then another in the sixth to close it to 3-2. A heads up play from Centerfielder Nick Corbani ended that sixth as he got a force out at second on a short drive to center. The Marlins would not go away though, and got the tying run to third in the seventh before Johnny Vavuris got the final two outs. Lucas Kehs pitched effectively for the Angels over six innings. Daylin Birlin and Ricky Clary had two hits for the Marlins.

June 9 Mariners 9 Reds 3

The Mariners opened up a five run lead in the first, and held on to defeat the Reds 9-3. Hunter Wegner, Connor McGarty, Forrester Stearns, Aidan Gilkerson, and Ryan Yamaguchi had RBI hits in that first to get the Mariners off to a big lead. Wegner had three hits for the night. Stearns, Gilkerson, and Jack Duffin added two hits for the Mariners, who got solid pitching from McGarty and Andrew Cochran. Danny Ramos thwarted an early Reds rally with a tumbling, juggling catch down the right field line. Scott Sheron had three hits for the Reds.

June 8 Reds 10 Giants 6

The Reds rallied from a 5-0 first inning deficit to defeat the Giants 10- 6. Jason Franks opened the game with a double over the left fielders head, and Brady Lecues capped the early Giants scoring with an RBI single. But the Reds answered right back in their top of the second as Frankie Bondanza and Christian Pedersen-Seaman each had two hits in the innings as the Reds took a lead they would keep. Scott Sheron and Colby Lamond each drove in four runs for the Reds. R. J. Balderama had two hits for the Giants , and made several outstanding plays at Shortstop.

June 6 Reds 2 Cubs 1

The Reds defeated the Cubs 2-1 in a pitching and defensive battle at Sinaloa. The Reds struck early as Colby Lamond lead off the game with a single, and came around on a fielder’s choice. The Reds built the lead to 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second as Frankie Bondanza reached base on an error, and moved to third on a single from Christian Pedersen-Seaman. Brandon Kelly delivered the key second run for the Reds on a Sacrifice Fly to right. Scott Sheron took a no hitter into the fifth, but Dominic Borgo broke it up with a single to open the Cubs fifth. Sheron picked Borgo off, but Mitchell Crowe drew a walk, and Jack Frey followed with a single sending Crowe to third. Cameron Moylan got the run home on a ground out. Sheron got the last two outs in the fifth with strikeouts. The Reds had a rally going in their half of the fifth, but Aidan Evans made a tumbling catch in right to prevent an insurance run from scoring, keeping the score 2-1. Matt DeFilippis threw two shut out innings to get the save for the Reds. Colton Freemantle pitched three shutout innings to give the Cubs the chance for a late rally, but the Reds pitching and defense held up.

Hello. My son Nicholas Woo, 13, resident of Greenbrae and Kent student going into 8th grade won the Marin County Junior Golf Championship yesterday at Indian Valley.

He shot even par 72 in brutal winds to win his age division (12-13 yrs old) by 4 shots. He also beat all 14,15,16 & 17 year olds by 3 shots!

His season has just started and success continues. Earlier this season he tied for first in the Marin County Middle School Individual Golf Championship as a 7th grader and took overall medalist honors at the Veritas World junior qualifying tournament in Orange County.

His next major event will be the Veritas world junior championship and junior Olympics of golf in Pasadena, Ca July 22-25 competing against one of the best international junior fields in golf.

Nick has been playing golf at san Geronimo since 5 years old. He shot in the 40’s for nine holes at San Geronimo for first time when he was six. He first broke par by shooting 3 under par 33 at San Geronimo when he was nine. He tied for first in his very first tourney at McGinnis when he was five and won his first JGANC tournement when he was nine and has won many others since.

When he was 11 he won the JGANC All-Stars tournement which was the season ending Not Cal championship of the 8 top players in his age division.

He is currently a Meadow Club Junior Merit Member and was awarded the privilege of being so at the age of 12 being their youngest Junior merit Member.

Please let me know if you have any questions for Nick. I’m so proud of him!